This article surveys results established to date for the "criterion filtering" approach to adaptive control. Criterion filtering bypasses the usual preliminary updating of probability distributions via transitional probability assessments (Bayes' rule) and focuses instead on the direct updating...

The distortion in educational investment in poorer children is often attributed to credit market imperfections and hence to the unequal access of children to educational opportunity. However, the distortion might also be attributable to disincentive effects that cause children to make...

This article formulates and axiomatizes a conditional expected utility model that allows a decision maker to specify his actions in the form of partial rather than complete contingency plans and to simultaneously choose goals and actions in end-mean pairs. Both utility and probability are...

Real net social security wealth (NSSW), the real present value of social security benefits received minus social security taxes paid, is frequently used as a direct proxy measure for the impact of a social security system on generation welfare. This article examines the relationship between real...

The name of the journal "Computer Science in Economics and Management" was changed to "Computational Economics" This paper reviews work on the development of a program "Nasa" for the automated comparative static analysis of parameterized nonlinear systems over parameter intervals. "Nasa"...

This study reports experimental market power and efficiency outcomes for a computational wholesale electricity market operating in the short run under systematically varied concentration and capacity conditions. The pricing of electricity is determined by means of a clearinghouse double auction...

In actual problem contexts, the time horizon over which plans are formulated must generally be short in relation to the history of the process as a whole. What loss of return is entailed by the use of these relatively short planning horizons? This article develops a general discrete-time dynamic...

In April 2003 the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission proposed a complicated market design - the Wholesale Power Market Platform (WPMP) ï¾– for common adoption by all U.S. wholesale power markets. Versions of the WPMP have been implemented in New England, New York, the mid-Atlantic...

Aggregation conditions permitting macro variables to be expressed as functions of other macro variables have long been sought in macroeconomics. For example, conditions have been sought permitting aggregate consumption to be expressed as a function of aggregate income, independently of the...

Part II: Special Issue Dedicated to Robert E. Kalaba